To: Mr Akihiko Matsui

[cidbahamut]

Gotta be something else. I present you with a fact and the best you can do is blame me.

I'm telling you that the time it takes to build a six man party has not changed since 2009.

[Trisscar]

Gotta be something else. I present you with a fact and the best you can do is blame me.

Don't hate us because you provided us facts that only goes to illustrate how invalid your argument is.

[cidbahamut]

I'm somewhat surprised no one ever tries to make a thread about how we should go back to having caps on CoP so that people have to work together and all that for it.

Those threads definitely happened. I don't know if there were ever any on this forum, but they definitely happened.

[Trisscar]

I'm telling you that the time it takes to build a six man party has not changed since 2009.

I would argue that it is a lot simpler to build a six man party now. Shout for a book burn party in Jeuno for a specific level, go to target zone and party hardy. You'd be surprised how many people would jump at it, really.

[Sarick]

I would argue that it is a lot simpler to build a six man party now. Shout for a book burn party in Jeuno for a specific level, go to target zone and party hardy. You'd be surprised how many people would jump at it, really.

She doesn't want a book burn, see below. >>>

I can make a solution. Get rid of Abyssea and auto-repeat book pages. Take it back to the way it was. Happy? And no, I won't stop. Sorry.

[Komori]

She should know that sending /tells for party invites doesn't get you much feedback anyway.

90% of the parties I join are from shouts I see; not from people sending me tells etc. unless someone needs a rep.

[detlef]

Err wait. Eyeballed, aren't you a level 61 RDM? If I were level 61, I too would think that XPing was the only content that matters. You should get to 99 and reevaluate.

[Trisscar]

She doesn't want a book burn, see below. >>>

I saw that and personally I think she's nuts.

[Eyeballed]

Nice putting words into my mouth, ace. I like a challenge as much as anyone else, but 'challenge' is a far cry from tedious, boring, stress inducing gameplay like the old school way of leveling was.

Remember you aren't talking to someone who just started playing yesterday, you're talking to someone who's been active for nearly six years without quitting or taking extended breaks from the game despite how bad it sometimes got. I've been playing long before level sync came about, long before FoV or GoV, long before WotG and Campaigns, long before Aby.

I've been in some truly old school parties in the under croft of the tombs and Bibiki Bay. I've been in more experience points parties than I could ever count in pretty much every corner of FFxi including an imp party on Khimeria's island. I once knew every party camp by heart.

I've been in some truly epic parties that I will never forget. Once, I joined a party at level 23 on Qufim Island. It lasted nearly 12 hours and by the time we disbanded we were departing Yhoat Jungle. The same people that joined the group at the beginning were the same people that left, with very little down time and no PL.

This is, admittedly, an atypical party and more often then not parties were troublesome. Flagging up endlessly for an invite, only to get a party that usually disbands in less than an hour with little experience gained and it wasn't all that uncommon to leave with less experience than you entered with. Douchebag leaders, party members with no clue about the most basic of game mechanics, sub par healers, people with gimp gears, and on and on and on.

This is not a challenge, it's a torture session.

So at least 3-4 years out of 6 you endured this torture? You see how this adds up? If this part of the game pained you so much, then what was the point? What were you trying to prove?

[Eyeballed]

She should know that sending /tells for party invites doesn't get you much feedback anyway.

90% of the parties I join are from shouts I see; not from people sending me tells etc. unless someone needs a rep.

It might not get you much feedback, but I recall leading 98% of the parties I ever joined and tells did just fine for me. I think what you really mean to say is that all previous courtesies and etiquette is gone, and now people just hang around Jeuno looking to blow that next 300k on their anti-attitude.